One can roughly imagine which priorities would have been set in the first German security strategy if Putin had not invaded Ukraine: multilateralism, trade, human rights, climate protection, feminism and so on.
NATO would also have been mentioned, but perhaps only in one sentence, as in the traffic light coalition agreement.
Even now, Foreign Minister Baerbock was still talking about the climate crisis being "the security policy issue of our time" when she commissioned work on the new strategy.
This is of course nonsense.
Climate change can have an impact on German security, but it will be more indirect and really noticeable in many years' time.
The question of our time is the one that Putin brutally raised: Can Europe defend itself against an authoritarian, nationalist and expansionist Russia?
After all, Baerbock had the points on his speech that one can no longer avoid, even in pacifist-minded Germany: rearmament of the Bundeswehr, a stronger armaments industry, securing nuclear sharing, more soldiers to Eastern Europe, less energy from Russia, cyber security.
She even spoke of "defensiveness".
In the milieu of her party, it was once thought that they should be raised against nuclear power or the police.
Let's see how long the Greens can cope with this reality shock.